Home Buying and Home Selling News Archive of February 2007

Stop Home Foreclosure and Sell Your Home Fast Are Two New Target ...
Emediawire (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
If you want to Sell Your Home Fast and earn more money, then simply call As Is Now. If your house complies with their buying criteria, As Is Now will ...

Existing Home Sales Surge; Largest Gain in 2 Years
Mortgages at Quicken Loans - Livonia,MI,USA
Home buying activity picked up significantly in January, according to a report released today by the National Association of Realtors (NAR). ...

Freddie Mac to stop buying some high-risk mortgages
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were created by Congress to pump money into the mortgage market by buying home loans from banks and other lenders, ...

Pros and cons of buying fixer-upper home
Upstate House - NY,USA
Buying a fixer-upper home can certainly be profitable. But if you're not careful, it can also lead to a financial misstep. Here are tips to keep you on the ...

Real estate investors find solid gains overseas
Christian Science Monitor - Boston,MA,USA
NEW YORK - As most folks know, real estate is all about location. And for real estate investors, that location increasingly does not bear a United States ...

Statistics show real estate slow-down
Adrian Daily Telegram - Adrian,MI,USA
ADRIAN — Evidence of a continuing slowdown in the real estate market is being reported by Lenawee County government offices. ...

Man attributes real estate success to low-pressure approach
The Times and Democrat - Orangeburg,SC,USA
COLUMBIA, SC - Chad Sloan attributes his success in real estate to his low-pressure selling system. Sometimes, he doesn't even go inside the house he's ...

Don't count on house for retirement cash
Detroit Free Press - Detroit,MI,USA
Some retirees find it too emotionally draining to sell the family home. Others risk selling property during a slump. And downsizing does not always generate ...

Don't count on house for retirement cash
Detroit Free Press - Detroit,MI,USA
Some retirees find it too emotionally draining to sell the family home. Others risk selling property during a slump. And downsizing does not always generate ...

Smart Moves: When selling becomes a pain
Novato Advance - Novato,CA,USA
See your home sale in context with the neighborhood market. Perhaps properties in your community were selling at lightning speed just over a year ago. ...

FOR SALE -- By owner or by agent?
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer - Columbus,GA,USA
If you're selling a $200000 home through an agent, you're likely to pay about $12000 of that in real estate commissions. Of course, that commission is in ...

Home buying: Buy now? Or wait for a price drop?
CNNMoney.com - USA
Bottom line: If you can afford to make the purchase now and you're planning to be in the house for at least five years, "I wouldn't be worried about buying ...

Homeowners won't get taxed for doing house improvements
Gateway Newspapers - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
"I'd rather see the houses that are on the market sell," said Filiak. Fellow board member Linda Cole said new construction generates employment in the ...

Buying a home? Educate yourself first
Indianapolis Star - Indianapolis,IN,USA
William Wade's letter to the editor ("Home sales great; let's worry about foreclosures," Feb. 13) was spot on. Much of the responsibility for our huge ...

Buying a home? Educate yourself first
Indianapolis Star - Indianapolis,IN,USA
William Wade's letter to the editor ("Home sales great; let's worry about foreclosures," Feb. 13) was spot on. Much of the responsibility for our huge ...

NYC real estate stays hot, despite national trend
Poughkeepsie Journal - Poughkeepsie,NY,USA
... a tepid market in many other urban areas, according to preliminary indications from real estate firms, The New York Times reported in Monday’s edition. ...

You need an incentive to buy? How about free furniture, tuition?
Orlando Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USA
"I'm moving from a three-bedroom house farther south and downsizing, so some of my current furniture won't work at my new condo," she says...

Simple Solutions To Home Buying Challenges
FoxReno.com - Reno,NV,USA
Finding the right lending partner can make home buying easy and affordable. Interest rates are still relatively low and the market in many areas of the ...

Need help buying your first home? Here's where to look
Sun-Sentinel.com - Fort Lauderdale,FL,USA
But a home's price is just the beginning. Taxes and insurance can add as much as 50 percent to your monthly payment, real estate experts warn. ...

Home prices remain steady
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
Late last year, he began looking for a bigger house and thought he could make an offer before selling his existing home. But Kaneshiro soon found out that ...

House Flipping Is In
MSNBC - USA
In order to make a profit, house flippers buy low and sell high, seeking out real estate at depressed prices with the intention of reselling it at higher ...

Report finds residential real estate underperforms other assets
MarketWatch - USA
Over the more than 40-year period, real compound returns on stocks outpaced that of residential real estate, according to the study, with 5.95% average ...

KB Home results hint market is improving
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
"It's unclear at this point how strong the spring selling season is going to be," Mezger said. In its fiscal fourth quarter ended Nov. 30, KB Home reported ...

January home sales weak, but prices go up
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
January is typically one of the slowest months of the year for buying and selling homes, but last month was the most sluggish since 1998, DataQuick said. ...

January home sales weak, but prices go up
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
January is typically one of the slowest months of the year for buying and selling homes, but last month was the most sluggish since 1998, DataQuick said. ...

Your home isn't selling? Join the club
Orlando Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USA
Spring is still more than a month away, but the for-sale signs are sprouting early this year as home sellers hope to elbow their way into an increasingly ...

Buying new home before old home sells
Bankrate.com - USA
I have about $25000 equity in the old house to put on the new house when it does sell. I could immediately refinance the new one when I get my equity out of ...

Make your house stand out from the crowd
Robertson County Times - TN,USA
With more houses on the market, homeowners looking to sell need to try harder to make their home stand out - even though more houses are actually selling than ever before ...

Things to Consider When Buying a New Home
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - St. Louis,MO,USA
The couple should first determine how much they can afford for a house. The couple’s current continuous income, monthly expenses and credit history, along with the down payment amount and interest rates will determine what type of house the couple can afford ...

Home sales down for 8th straight month
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA
Home sales are down for the eighth month in a row, compared with the same month last year, according to figures released by the North Texas Real Estate ...

Hot Words to Sell Your Home
RisMedia.com (press release) - Norwalk,CT,USA
The term "ranch" house slowed sales by 10%. Properties described as rentals (income producing) took 60% longer to sell. Though Anglin assumes the basic ...

Tips on choosing a real estate agent
ThisWeekNews - Columbus Area,OH,USA
If you're searching for your next dream home and/or looking to sell your current home, it's important to have a qualified real estate agent on your side ...

Real estate agents turn to 'YouTube' to make sales
WKYC-TV - Cleveland,OH,USA
And the popular website YouTube, usually associated with outlandish and wacky videos, is making the ins in the real estate market ...

Real estate agents turn to 'YouTube' to make sales
WKYC-TV - Cleveland,OH,USA
And the popular website YouTube, usually associated with outlandish and wacky videos, is making the ins in the real estate market. ...

Denver homes selling for lower prices
Phoenix Business Journal - Phoenix,AZ,USA
The average sold price for a detached home was $297368, a significant drop from a year ago when the average sold price of a home was $308982. ...

Dreaming of buying a second home? Now might be the perfect time
Lynnwood Journal Newspapers - Lynnwood,WA,USA
Now may be the perfect time to consider buying a vacation home. Whether the motive is increasing your real estate investment portfolio or purchasing a dream ...

Company Selling Pictures Of Your House?
Hard OCP - Plano,TX,USA
There is a Canadian company running around taking pictures of everyone’s homes to use in a database that the company plans to sell to banks and insurance ...

Company Selling Pictures Of Your House?
Hard OCP - Plano,TX,USA
There is a Canadian company running around taking pictures of everyone’s homes to use in a database that the company plans to sell to banks and insurance ...

Command your agent's full attention
Allentown Morning Call - Allentown,PA,USA
As a home seller facing a challenging market, your trepidation is palpable. Obviously, one way to ease your anxiety and improve your odds of a successful sale is to find the right listing agent....

Should you renew agent's contract?
NorthJersey.com - Hackensack,NJ,USA
Sellers trying to swim the chilly waters of the housing market for the past three to six months, and whose homes remain unsold, now have a decision to make: renew with their current real estate agent, or go elsewhere ...

The Hottest Property Market in the World
DailyWealth - Baltimore,MD,USA
"We gave up," said the seller. "We had our house on the market. We tried to sell it ourselves. Then, we put it with a realtor. But there were nearly a dozen ...

Well-chosen words wield home-selling power
Orlando Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USA
Owners use listing language to convey how serious they are about selling. Some words work better than others, Anglin's study found. ...

Sellers benefit from agents' expertise
Sun Publications Chicago - Chicago,IL,USA
Homeowners think selling their home themselves is an easy way to avoid paying real estate commissions. Few realize selling a home requires much more than ...

Home sales may be slowing, but real-estate funds pay off
Asbury Park Press - Asbury Park,NJ,USA
Real-estate investment trusts, known as REITs, are in the business of buying and selling commercial real estate — apartments, shopping malls and even ...

Selling a house? A little work could add value
Community Press - Florence,KY,USA
A buyer has an opinion about a home within 15 seconds of coming in the driveway and the front door, according to Vicki Poynter who has a Lakeside Park home consulting business called A Staging Effect....

Smart Moves; Get your agent to focus on you
Novato Advance - Novato,CA,USA
As a home seller facing a challenging market, your trepidation is palpable. Obviously, one way to ease your anxiety and improve your odds of a successful sale is to find the right listing agent ...

Soaring foreclosures sign of trouble ahead
The Republican - Springfield,MA,USA
Foreclosure petitions soared nearly 70 percent in the Bay State in 2006, capping the end of the worst year for the state's housing market in over a decade, according to figures compiled by The Warren Group, a Boston-based publisher of Banker & Tradesman and regional real estate data. And foreclosures are expected to climb again in 2007 ...